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Posts tagged with 'tutankhamun' at MetaFilter.Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:45:08 -0800Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:45:08 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60overwhelmed by all the ancient colorhttp://www.metafilter.com/163638/overwhelmed%2Dby%2Dall%2Dthe%2Dancient%2Dcolor
How a workshop uses digital technology to craft perfect copies of imperilled art: <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/the-factory-of-fakes">The Factory of Fakes</a> From Factum Arte's website, blog posts about the <a href="http://www.factum-arte.com/pag/21/Facsimile-of-the-tomb-of-Tutankhamun">facsimile of Tutankhamun's tomb</a> and the <a href="http://www.factum-arte.com/pag/637/Polittico-Griffoni--br---i-Digital-technology-applied-to-the-re-unification-of-a-scattered-altarpiece--i-">Polittico Griffoni,</a> mentioned in the article. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.163638Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:45:08 -0800Joe in AustraliaHas Nefertiti's tomb finally been found?http://www.metafilter.com/152062/Has%2DNefertitis%2Dtomb%2Dfinally%2Dbeen%2Dfound
"<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/11/africa/nefertiti-tomb-tutankhamun/index.html">The implications are extraordinary</a>, for, if <a href="http://www.highres.factum-arte.org/Tutankhamun/">digital appearance</a> translates into physical reality, it seems we are now faced not merely with the prospect of a new, Tutankhamun-era storeroom to the west; to the north (there) appears to be signaled a continuation of tomb KV 62 (Tutankhamun's tomb), and within these uncharted depths an earlier royal interment -- that of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti">Nefertiti</a> herself." Text of the source <a href="https://www.academia.edu/14406398/The_Burial_of_Nefertiti_2015_">article</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.152062Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:02:46 -0800445supermagThe Saga of King Tut's Geneshttp://www.metafilter.com/137370/The%2DSaga%2Dof%2DKing%2DTuts%2DGenes
In February 2008, Yehia Gad sequenced Tutankhamun's genes in front of a documentary crew from the Discovery Channel. <a href="https://medium.com/matter/9fb62a68597b">Jo Marchant writes about the previous work studying his tomb and remians and the unfortunate timing of the last study.</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/95184/Revisiting-King-Tutankhamuns-Tomb">(King Tut Previously)</a> As Marchant reports, the sequencing of DNA that had been baking underneath the Egyptian sands for millennia has significant scientific hurdles. The method that Gad used to sequence Tutankhamun, <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110427/full/472404a.html">PCR, is very vulnerable to outside contamination</a>, especially given the amount that his mummy had been handled by modern day people. However, given the recent <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22923880">sequencing of mummy Cat DNA</a>, once they can begin testing again, things do look promising for the future. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.137370Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:23:03 -0800HactarStay away from my afterlifehttp://www.metafilter.com/114511/Stay%2Daway%2Dfrom%2Dmy%2Dafterlife
<a href='http://www.bidoun.org/magazine/25-25/stay-away-from-my-afterlife/'>A walk through the Egyptian Museum in Cairo with licensed tour guide Ahmed Mohammed, at the rate of 150 Egyptian pounds per hour.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.114511Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:29:46 -0800latkesSolid Sunlighthttp://www.metafilter.com/110284/Solid%2DSunlight
<a href="http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197905/desert.glass-an.enigma.htm">Libyan Desert Glass</a> is strewn over an area of hundreds of square kilometers in the Great Sand Sea, a region desolate even by the high standards of the Sahara. As <a href="http://meteoriteman.com/desert01.html">one account of a recent trip to acquire Libyan Desert Glass</a> puts it: "Out there, death sits on your shoulder like a vulture." While some would have you believe that Libyan Desert Glass is <a href="http://www.skepticreport.com/sr/?p=288">evidence of ancient atomic warfare, it is probably evidence</a> of a <a href="http://www.sandia.gov/news/publications/technology/2006/0804/glass.html">massive meteorite or comet explosion nearly thirty million years ago</a>, similar to Tunguska, but much bigger. The stone age Aterian peoples made <a href="http://mbabramgalleries.com/africa_libyan_glass_point.html">tools</a> from it, but the remoteness and inhospitality of the Great Sand Sea has ensured that until recent times it has mostly been undisturbed. However, a <a href="http://www.temehu.com/libyan-desert-glass.htm">breast ornament buried in Tutankhamen's tomb</a> has a scarab made from Libyan Desert Glass, the only piece made of the material to have been found by Egyptologists, and <a href="http://www.egyptological.com/2011/09/libyan-desert-glass-and-the-breast-ornament-of-tutankhamen-4291">how Tutankhamen's jewelers acquired it has remained a mystery</a>. Until <a href="http://www.duncancaldwell.com/Site/King_Tuts_Desert_Glass_scarab.html">now</a>. <small>[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/101723/Hard-rain-on-Libya">Previously</a>]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.110284Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:01:34 -0800KattullusRevisiting King Tutankhamun's Tombhttp://www.metafilter.com/95184/Revisiting%2DKing%2DTutankhamuns%2DTomb
<em>Ten thousand tourists have tramped above the spot where the latest find has just been made. Other archeologists, looking for the needle entrance to the royal tomb of Tutankhamen in the limestone haystack of el Qorn, came within a few feet of where, after sixteen years of labor, the late Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter found their reward.</em> National Geographic republished <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/1923/05/tut-discovery/williams-photography">the photos</a> <small>(flash gallery)</small> and <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/1923/05/tut-discovery/williams-text/1">the text of the 1923 account of the opening of the tomb of King Tutankhamun</a>. <small>If you want to see the images directly, you'll miss the text descriptions, but you can get to the images by editing <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/1923/05/tut-discovery/img/01-714.jpg">this URL</a>, where the images are numbered 01 to 20, even though there are only 17 pictures in the flash gallery (images <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/1923/05/tut-discovery/img/04-714.jpg">04</a>, <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/1923/05/tut-discovery/img/12-714.jpg">12</a> and <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/1923/05/tut-discovery/img/17-714.jpg">17</a> were excluded). </small>
In 2005, Nat Geo posted <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2005/06/king-tut/mysteries/home">a narrated and interactive views of the tomb, Tutankhamun's royal wrappings, and a forensic investigation of the remains</a> for the article entitled "<a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2005/06/king-tut/williams-text">King Tut Revealed</a>," plus <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2005/06/king-tut/mysteries/resources">links to more Nat Geo resources</a>. The National Geographic Channel have also put the a documentary from the same time on YouTube - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euEZkUILBjM">NGC Presents: King Tut's Final Secrets</a> (92 minutes).
For more views on the past from the past, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atime.com+1923+tutankhamen">Time Magazine's online archive turns up more odd gems</a>, with such updates as this one from <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952117,00.html">October 5, 1923</a>: <blockquote>Work in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor proceeded with painstaking slowness incomprehensible to the layman who would prefer to tear the secrets of the ages from TutankhAmen's breast in a day. </blockquote>And there were <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846469,00.html">a couple</a> of <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,715375-2,00.html">imaginary interviews</a> that invoked King Tut. Also on the lighter side, this bit of insight into <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846468,00.html">the value of young King Tut's wealth</a>: <blockquote>The combined value of all the objects in the tomb of King "Tut" is put at $15,000,000. Had this sum been invested in safe 6 per cent bonds 3,400 years ago, it would today amount to $4,800, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000. </blockquote>In 1934, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,929674,00.html">the Curse of the Mummy had the national attention</a>, especially after <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,746827,00.html">the death</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Weigall">Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall</a>, Weigall was an Egyptologist involved with the discovery and excavation of King Tutankhamun's tomb, and <a href="http://www.king-tut.org.uk/curse-of-king-tut/arthur-weigall-curse-of-king-tut.htm">a vocal believer in (or the one who started) talk of the curse</a>, which was <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/rekas/tut/stop.htm">prime material for international newspapers</a> covering anything related to Egyptian discoveries.
If all these names and details are running together, <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/tutstomb.html">this page provides an overview of the discovery</a>, covering the people involved, the curse of the mummy, and the contents of the tomb. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.95184Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:06:35 -0800filthy light thiefFunky Tuthttp://www.metafilter.com/66204/Funky%2DTut
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7077423.stm">King Tut's face revealed to the world</a> The face of Egypt's most <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvmiJQSl5hM">famous</a> ancient ruler, <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/">King Tutankhamun</a>, has been put on public display for the first time. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.66204Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:19:28 -0800psmealeyA strange and wonderful medleyhttp://www.metafilter.com/52139/A%2Dstrange%2Dand%2Dwonderful%2Dmedley
<a href="http://www.ashmolean.museum/gri/carter/">Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation</a> The University of Oxford's Griffith Institute has put together <a href="http://www.ashmolean.museum/gri/4tut.html">a fantastic digital collection of records</a> documenting <a href="http://www.ashmolean.museum/gri/carter/">Howard Carter's</a> excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun, including <a href="http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/gallery/#">ninety-three pages of photographs</a> taken by Harry Burton during the excavation. You can also <a href="http://www.ashmolean.museum/gri/4sea1not.html">read Carter's diaries</a> and <a href="http://www.ashmolean.museum/gri/4maceope.html">eyewitness</a> <a href="http://www.ashmolean.museum/gri/4garope.html">accounts</a> of the excavation. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52139Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:18:29 -0800LeeJayNew Pharaonic Tomb Discoveredhttp://www.metafilter.com/49053/New%2DPharaonic%2DTomb%2DDiscovered
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4700032.stm">The Valley of the Kings not done yet?</a> British archaeologists have discovered a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings - the first such find since Howard Carter found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. Ironically, the new tomb was a mere 5 meters from Tutankhamun's. The tomb includes unopened sarcophagi and 5 undisturbed mummies.
Patricia Podzorski, curator of Egyptian Art at the University of Memphis, said "People have been saying the valley was done for 100 years. They said it before Howard Carter found King Tutankhamun's tomb and they said it after. But, obviously, they are still wrong." tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.49053Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:16:20 -0800robhuddles